Access Statement.

Access is central to Doing Disability Futures. Many of us have lived experience of disability and are personally and professionally embedded within disabled community. Our work is deeply informed by Disability Justice principles, and by the work of disabled activists and scholars. 

Doing access means ongoing and ever-evolving conversations and actions to ensure our methods, approaches, tools, and resources are accessible. The project is guided by principles of accountability, collaboration, and care. We follow an activist-informed ethics that includes commitments to queer, decolonial, feminist disability justice and crip-made access, favouring lived experience research and ‘nothing about us without us.’ 

The creation of this website has been informed by the excellent work of AIM Lab and Arika, who have extensive resources on access for online and offline spaces.  

We have implemented a Sienna accessibility plugin, which you can find via the access symbol in the bottom left corner of all pages. This allows users to customise their experience in various ways, including adjusting text size and spacing, modifying colour contrast and saturation, enabling a dyslexia-friendly mode, applying a reading guide to pages, and more.  

In addition to this, our pages are designed with accessibility in mind from the start, featuring: 

Accessible fonts: The fonts used (Futura and Space Grotesk) are clean, proportional sans-serif typefaces with good character legibility that are designed to be easy-to-read at both display and non-display sizes. They have clear character shapes: with well-defined letterforms. 

Clear headings hierarchy: Web content is organised according to a system of titles (headings and subheadings) and text sizes creating a clear structure for the content. 

Contrasting colours: The colour contrast for both text and non-text content and their respective backgrounds on the website have been chosen to accommodate visitors of all visual abilities (including people with colour blindness and other vision impairments). 

Content navigation: The website has been made easy to navigate. Main menu is easy to access with clear sections leading to the different parts of the website. Footer includes a sitemap of all website content. Links are coloured and underlined. 

Alt-text is present for all non-decorative elements.